(NeWs) An elegant Postscript-based windowing environment, invented by James Gosling, the author of GOsMACs. NeWs would almost certainly have won the standards war with the X Window system if it hadn' t been proprietary to {sun Microsystems}. There is a lesson here that too many software vendors haven' t yet heeded. Communication is based on Postscript and server functions can be extended. see also HyperNeWs, OpenWindows. (1994-12-12)